oa Feedback from the Turkish Earthquakes of 2023 in the Area Where the Main Facilities of the South Ukrainian Energy Complex Are Located

It is noted that earthquakes are a dangerous natural phenomenon that often leads to catastrophic destruction and numerous human casualties. Recent examples of such a formidable phenomenon include the recent devastating earthquake in Morocco, a series of devastating earthquakes that occurred in February 2023. in Turkey and in the area of the Turkish-Syrian border, which occurred in the Alpine-Himalayan or Mediterranean-Asian seismic belt. It was mentioned that, the Institute of Geophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a leading institution in Ukraine in the field of seismology, whose scientists and specialists developed projects and provided scientific support for the implementation of seismic monitoring systems for many energy and environmentally hazardous facilities, in particular at the Zaporizhia, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants, the South Ukrainian and Dniester power complexes, conducted seismic surveys at all HPPs of the Dnieper Cascade. To clarify the seismic hazard, the Institute of Geophysics of the NAS of Ukraine conducts seismic monitoring of the area where the main facilities of the Southern Ukrainian Energy Complex are located, and, among other seismic events, a series of devastating earthquakes that occurred in February 2023 in Turkey was registered. It is shown that despite the significant power of the main shocks of the series - magnitudes 7.5 and 7.8, the number of people killed in Turkey and Syria as a result of the earthquake was 50,132, and approx. 120,000 was wounded, 25,000 buildings were destroyed, damages up to $10 billion, due to the small depth of the earthquakes, the maximum values of ground accelerations in the area of the location of the main facilities were small - up to 6.5*103 μm/sec².